emily

human rights & atrocity crimes lawyer

[emily @SoupMuse]

@AndrewARosen @MarkKersten You should perhaps refrain from wading into this conversation if you do not know the difference between the ICJ and the ICC.

A nation filing a genocide claim before the ICJ is hardly unusual, especially when there is an ongoing genocide.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

I guess we wasted everyone’s time with all that due process then… good to know so we avoid such nuisances next time and go straight to the morality vote

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[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

The question is not whether Canada will leave the #ICC, Minister @AnitaAnandMP, but rather: what will Canada do to defend the Court from the unwarranted, mafia-style attacks waged against it by the United States?

[Luigi Daniele @luigidaniele10]

In case NATO and Israel's genocide accomplice states in the ASP win the battle to remove Karim Khan, Global South states should already be coalescing around a candidate independent from US, Israel & subaltern European states' influence.

The states failing to activate the EU
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[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Completely insane story out of the occupied West Bank, in which joyriding Haredi settler kids crashed their car in the Palestinian village of Mukhmas, and the army laid a devastating siege on the community to “rescue” them. Full story in link below.

[Tayab Ali @tayab_ali_]

🚨 Urgent Lawyers letter to ICC states Parties

Extract “You are the decision-makers. You alone will determine whether the Prosecutor is removed. Yet the man whose removal you are considering has been told that his representatives may not address you, may not answer before you the case put against him, and may not correct errors, of which there are many, in the material placed in front of you. We know of no court or tribunal in any proper and fair legal system that bars a person facing the gravest professional sanction from being heard.

So we write openly, though restricted by confidentiality obligations, because no other route has been left to us.”

Read more ⬇️

[Adil Haque @AdHaque110]

At a meeting on Sudan. An absolute disgrace.

[emily @SoupMuse]

@lcmporter I am so so sorry. All cancer is a scourge. And all the more maddening when you have fought so hard for your health. Thinking of you.

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Genuinely hilarious that anyone thinks you’d have to go out of your way to encounter settler terrorists in the occupied West Bank. You people have no fucking clue what’s going on over here. None

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Eylon shares proof that khanna is not anti-Israel but anti-genocide and wonders, three years of genocide later, “what happened that he became anti-Israel” with a straight face

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

The people who attacked us yesterday are living on private Palestinian land in Area A. The judge says they “did this as part of a private patrol sent by the farm owner, who… sent them to detain their occupants.” One of them was 14 — in other words, a child soldier.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

“The IDF is apparently the world’s first army to declare a toilet a closed military zone.”

What? Yes. Settlers blocked a Palestinian family in Umm al-Khair from accessing their toilet. Then the IDF declared it a closed military zone.

https://t.co/nZNZl6XI5W

[Hala Y Alkarib @Halayalkarib]

An excellent report by @democracynow focusing on the UAE's role in inciting extreme violence and atrocities in Sudan, as well as the threats to ElObaid.
#KeepEyesOnSudan https://t.co/tbJlWl8UOi

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

While @RoKhanna’s bus was being hijacked, the village he just left—umm al-khair—came under attack as well. Terror everywhere all the time.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

The notion that you must wait for a court to label something a genocide is disingenuous and not in line with current law. Int’l obligations require states to *prevent* genocide, which obviously can’t wait till it’s over. The Holocaust eg was never jusicially called a genocide

[Antonia Juelich @AntoniaJuelich]

In a hotel room in northeast Nigeria, I opened a leading AI chatbot, turned my laptop toward a former Boko Haram commander, and asked if he'd used it. He nodded.

"You type in the question… like 'How can I build a bomb?', and then it tells you how. It is like a human robot. We used it a lot."

My new study on how the jihadist terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI with @CamAISciPolicy, covered today in @nytimes 🧵/9

[Thairi Moya Sánchez @ThairiMoya]

1. Watching today’s revelations on the ICC Bureau and the voting rules, I can’t help but think back to my June piece on institutional design and disciplinary legality: https://t.co/dfdUOlGUCc

[Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck]

After another, quieter, week of layoffs impacting local staff, the Washington Post has now laid off all of its reporters who have covered Gaza full time since 2023.

This is a choice about what coverage and whose voices matter.

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Establish a process

The process clears the investigated party

Ignore the result to get the outcome you want

Change the rules so it can’t be undone

I’m frankly shocked by the lack of due process in all this and how far some are willing to go to gaslight you into not caring

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

This is a blockbuster by @SondosAsem1 for @MiddleEastEye. After two years of reporting on allegations of rape and sexual assault, the Bureau is trying to remove the Prosecutor solely on the basis of a consensual relationship the complainant herself denies. https://t.co/EI4gUpMEgh